Abstract:
A method for processing a digital image for rendering on a display. The image includes image elements associated with color information represented in a colorimetric space having a luminance and chrominance components. The luminance component has a value in a first predetermined interval. The display can render values of luminance components included in a second predetermined interval, of greater length than the first interval. The method includes: determining information representative of image brightness perceived by an observer, based on the values of the first luminance component; calculating an expansion exponent as a function of the determined brightness information; transforming the first luminance components into second luminance components, including calculating an intermediate luminance value by applying the calculated expansion exponent to the first luminance component value and multiplying the intermediate value by the length of the second interval. The expansion exponent is a decreasing function of the determined brightness information.
Abstract:
A method, device, and a computer program are provided to decode a signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, the received signal being represented by a signal vector. The method comprises: calculating an initial estimate of a transmitted symbol vector carried by the received signal vector; calculating a bound parameter (201) from a linear function of the initial estimate of the transmitted symbol vector, the linear function being defined by a slope coefficient and an intercept coefficient, the method further comprising: determining estimated symbols representative of the transmitted symbols carried by the received signal, the estimated symbols being determined from a set of candidate lattice points, each lattice point comprising a set of components, each component of a candidate lattice point being searched in a search interval (203), the search interval having at least one search interval bound computed from the bound parameter; determining (205) the estimated symbols from the closest lattice point to the received signal vector among the candidate lattice points.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a wavelength tunable semiconductor laser comprising a laser gain section (510) optically coupled to an underlying optical waveguide (520). According to an embodiment of the invention, a first and a second passive microring resonators (530, 560) having a whistle geometry, are arranged on both sides of the laser gain section and evanescently coupled with the optical waveguide (520). Highly reflective broadband mirrors (541, 571) are provided at the free ends of optical waveguide branches (240, 270) tangentially connected to the microring resonators. The first and second passive microrings resonators provide an optical feedback to the laser gain section and allow to select the desired wavelength. The laser structure can be implemented according to a III-V/Si technology.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a transition device between a printed transmission line on a dielectric substrate and a rectangular waveguide including a front face forming an inlet of the waveguide, a rear face parallel to the front face and forming an outlet of the waveguide, a lower face, an upper face parallel to the lower face, the upper and lower faces extending between the front and rear faces, the waveguide being a block of dielectric material whereof the faces are fully metallized except for the front face and the rear face, the transition device including: a three-dimensional cavity formed in the volume of the waveguide between the inlet of the waveguide, further forming the inlet of the cavity, and the rear face widening, the cavity being at an inlet height of the lower face of the waveguide and ending at a distance from the inlet of the cavity at an outlet height greater than the inlet height; an electrical connection extending from the transmission line along the front face of the waveguide up to the inlet of the three-dimensional cavity.
Abstract:
A method of detecting transient changes in the distribution of a discrete time series includes: operating in a sparse mode wherein, at sniff periods successively repeated at a first rate, at most K test phases are performed, K being an integer superior or equal to two, each test phase consisting of analyzing, by a sampling stopping time determination unit, samples of the time series captured by a sampler at sampling times according to a second rate which is higher than the first rate to provide a positive or negative result of the test phase. If the results of K successive test phases of a sniff period are each positive, the method switches to operate in a dense mode wherein the sampler is operated to continuously capture samples of the time series at sampling times according to the second sampling rate.
Abstract:
A method for recovering secret data of a cryptographic device comprises: a) determining stochastic models of leakages relating respective measurable quantities to internal states or operations of the cryptographic device, the number of greater than the number of masks used by the cryptographic device to conceal the secret data; b) sending command sequences to the device, where each command sequence causes the device to perform a cryptographic operation on at least one respective plaintext using the secret data and the masks; c) during processing of each cryptographic operation, recording a series of measurements of measurable quantities; and d) computing an estimator of secret data by maximizing the conditional joint probability of the recorded measurements given the corresponding plaintexts, averaged over all possible values of the masks. A method for evaluating the security of a cryptographic device is provided.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the invention provides a decoder for decoding a signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, said signal carrying information symbols selected from a given alphabet and being associated with a signal vector, said transmission channel being represented by a channel matrix, wherein said decoder comprises: a sub-block division unit (301) configured to divide the received signal vector into a set of sub-vectors in correspondence with a division of a matrix related to said channel matrix; a candidate set estimation unit (305) for recursively determining candidate estimates of sub-blocks of the transmitted signal corresponding to said sub-vectors, each estimate of a given sub-block being determined from at least one candidate estimate of the previously processed sub-blocks, wherein said candidate set estimation unit is configured to determine a set of candidate estimates for at least one sub-block of the transmitted signal by applying at least one iteration of a decoding algorithm using the estimates determined for the previously processed sub-blocks, the number of candidate estimates determined for said sub-block being strictly inferior to the cardinal of the alphabet and superior or equal to two, the decoder further comprising a signal estimation unit (306) for calculating an estimate of the transmitted signal from said candidate estimates determined for said sub-blocks.
Abstract:
System for testing a protocol, which is active on an item of equipment, testing system including a monitor to continuously capture traces, corresponding to sequences of messages of protocol under test, a filter of the traces captured using formalized properties of the demands of protocol under test, to separate the traces into data and control parts, a temporary storage, and transfer module to transfer the filtered traces to a tester so as to emit verdicts by verifying whether the traces satisfy the demands of the formalized properties of the protocol under test, in the event of saturation of the tester leading to the emission of a notification of load, the transfer module interrupts the transfer of filtered traces to the tester and stores the traces at least partially in the temporary storage, particularly only their control parts, before resuming the transfer of filtered traces when the tester is again available.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a transition device between a printed transmission line on a dielectric substrate and a rectangular waveguide including a front face forming an inlet of the waveguide, a rear face parallel to the front face and forming an outlet of the waveguide, a lower face, an upper face parallel to the lower face, the upper and lower faces extending between the front and rear faces, the waveguide being a block of dielectric material whereof the faces are fully metalized except for the front face and the rear face, the transition device including: a three-dimensional cavity formed in the volume of the waveguide between the inlet of the waveguide, further forming the inlet of the cavity, and the rear face widening, the cavity being at an inlet height of the lower face of the waveguide and ending at a distance from the inlet of the cavity at an outlet height greater than the inlet height; an electrical connection extending from the transmission line along the front face of the waveguide up to the inlet of the three-dimensional cavity.
Abstract:
A system for displaying N multimedia streams, including multiple pairs of viewing spectacles and a displaying medium. The system obtains N multimedia streams, each stream including two multimedia substreams among 2×N multimedia substreams, and has N sources generating the 2×N substreams on the displaying medium. Each source has an encoder for coding two of the 2×N multimedia substreams, each substream being coded with a set of N coding modes each using a specific set of at least two states, having at least 2N possible combinations of states, each substream being coded with one of the possible combinations of states in order to visualize a given stream from the N multimedia stream. At least one pair spectacles includes a decoder for decoding, for each eyepiece, one of the substreams of the given stream and having N decoding modes corresponding to the N coding modes used for coding the substreams.